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SANCS is proud to announce that the @UKZN will partner as a Challenge and Speaker Partner with SANCS26! The UKZN will present an engaging challenge for students to tackle collaboratively in multidisciplinary teams.
Next up we have Johnny Botha. He is an experienced Senior Project Manager at the @CSIR. He will provide a lecture on Cybercrime Investigations in South Africa.
The lecture will take place on March 25 from 14:30-15:30 CET / 15:30-16:30 SAST online on Microsoft Teams.
The day has finally come, SANCS26 will kick off today with our Inaugural Opening Ceremony!
The Inaugural session takes place from 14:00-16:00 CET / 15:00-17:00 SAST online on Microsoft Teams.
We can't wait to see everyone at the SANCS26 Kick-Off!
New speaker announcement! Jeroen van den Hoven will provide a lecture on Ethics of AI at #SANCS26. He is University Professor at TU Delft.
The lecture will take place on March 25 from 16:00-17:00 CET / 17:00-18:00 SAST online on Microsoft Teams.
#SANCS26 will kick off on Monday! The Inaugural session will include an expert panel on 'Current Cyber Security Shifts and the future Cyber Security workforce', by Elmarie Biermann, Sandika Daya, Brett van Niekerk, and Galeboe Mogotsi, moderated by @noelle_cowling.
New exciting speaker announcement: Barry van Kampen. He will provide a lecture on Ethical Hacking at #SANCS26. In this session he will look at the basics of hacking: what it really is, how you can get started, and why it can be a valuable future path.
SANCS is proud to announce that the @CSIR will partner as a Challenge and Speaker Partner with SANCS26! The CSIR will present an engaging challenge for students to tackle collaboratively in multidisciplinary teams.
New speaker announcement! @C_Painter will provide a lecture on Ransomware at #SANCS26. The lecture will take place on March 17 from 16:00-17:00 CET / 17:00-18:00 SAST online on Microsoft Teams.
New exciting speaker announcement! Trishana Ramluckan is is Honorary Research Fellow, International Humanitarian (cyber) Law at the @UKZN. She will provide An Overview of South African Cyberlaw and Policy.
Exciting speaker announcement: Olaf Kolkman. He will provide a lecture on The Internet Way of Networking.
Olaf Kolkman is an executive-level advisor to, and spokesperson of, the @internetsociety .
New exciting speaker announcement! Samantha Hanreck will provide a lecture on AI Agents in the Wild: What Companies Are Getting Wrong About Security at SANCS26.
Samantha Hanreck is the founder of Data Sync, a global technology firm.
SANCS is proud to announce that we will be partnering with Data Sync for SANCS26. Data Sync have offered to provide an engaging challenge for the students to tackle in teams.
SANCS is proud to announce that we will be partnering with @DataGr8 for SANCS26. DataGr8 have offered to provide an engaging challenge for the students to tackle in teams.
Announcing our SANCS26 Ambassadors: Randall Tachiveyi & Panashe Dinha!
Both Randall & Panashe are SANCS25 and CTA Alumni and are eager to give back to the SANCS community!
Stay tuned for their SANCS experiences➡️instagram.com/sancs26/
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New speaker announcement! Dr. Heloise Meyer will provide a lecture on Social Engineering and the impact of AI at #SANCS26. Heloise is senior member of de academic-sector CSIRT within the SANReN group and passionate cybersecurity specialist.
